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Anthony Angarola (1893-1929) was an American painter and art instructor. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since he was an Italian immigrant himself, his work focused on people who struggled to adapt to a foreign culture. The full Wikipedia article can be found here.

An earlier correspondent noted:

Anthony Angarola, my great uncle, was also head of the painting department at the Kansas City Art Institute in the early 1920s.